"Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both"

"She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say?"

"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."

"If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?"

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"I am the only guinea pig I have."

"In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."

"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."

"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."

"At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years."

"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."